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Next Meeting (Hybrid Meeting): Thousand Oaks Library (1401 E. Janss Road Thousand Oaks, CA 91362) and on Zoom

Sunday, February 2, 2025 1:30PM

U.S. Immigration Law & Jewish Immigration, Jerry Rishe

The 1924 Johnson-Reed Immigration Act marked the beginning of a dark chapter in our nation's immigration history. The N.Y. Times headline declared: AMERICA OF THE MELTING POT COMES TO END

The story of how we reached that point is littered with xenophobia, fear of the Other, the Ku Klux Klan, the so-called science of eugenics and as stated by President Coolidge, the need that America must remain American.

Speaker: Jerry Rishe attended Cal State University Northridge. He studied at Whittier Law School to become an attorney in 1978. For the last 16 years of his legal career, he was a trial attorney with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (later the Department of Homeland Security) prosecuting people charged with violations of the Immigration and Nationality Act in Immigration Court. In 2008 he was honored by being named Employee of the Year.

Jerry Rishe

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